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● Article ‘The Frolicksome Keeper’, by Roy Palmer …………… p40-42 ● Publications News: CDs and Books below ………………………… p37; p46 ● From Folklife Societies: News - Malcolm Taylor steps down … p43 Diary: Talks & Conferences p46 ● List 7, Directory of Folklife Societies: Folklife Members (Associations, Trusts, Organisations) ………………………… p38-39 ● List 8, Folklife Studies: 1-line Summaries …………………………… p39 ● List 9: Seasonal Local Celebrations: with photos p46 • A list for this quarter, by Doc Rowe p44 • ‘2014 Minehead’ p45 • ‘Llangollen International Eisteddfod’ ……………………………… p45 • ‘The National Eisteddfod of Wales’ ………………………………… p46-47
Folklife Traditions: Publications
Please first consult Eds as to what is appropriate to publicise here. Up to 200 words per CD or book, more if advertising. Musical Traditions Records
Important music & song which might never achieve a commercial publication, for the small audience which appreciates it. Caroline Hughes : Sheep-Crook and Black Dog (MTCD365-6) With our first release of the new Financial Year, MT Records are extremely proud to be able to publish the rarely heard 1963 and 1966 recordings of ‘Queen’ Caroline Hughes made by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and Charles Parker. In addition, we have included a few songs from her husband, brother-in-law, daughter, and Emily Baker, another singer in their Traveller group. This legendary Gypsy singer is thought by many to be the finest exponent of the art. All Caroline Hughes’ best-known songs are here - a total of 90 songs and fragments (60 of which don’t appear on the recent Topic CD) including eight never before heard, which have been allocated new Roud Numbers. If the fragmentary nature of some of her songs displeases you, just enjoy the wonderful tunes, the variable verse lengths, long and short lines, and her brilliant musicianship. MTCD365-6 : Two CDs + 48 page integral booklet in DVD case. 90 tracks, 142 minutes. Just £16 from MT Records website (see below)
I Pray You Pay Attention and listen to my song: More traditional songs from around Lough Erne’s shore (MTCD367-8) Keith Summers, Musical Traditions’ original editor, died on 30th March 2004, shortly after the release of The Hardy Sons of Dan (MTCD329-0), a double CD of his 1977-83 Co Fermanagh recordings. This present double CD may be seen as volumes 3 & 4 of that set, and is issued to mark the 10th anniversary of Keith’s death. Many of the same singers are here, plus a good number of others, giving a great selection of traditional songs, ditties, and hunting songs from around Lough Erne’s shore - but no more football songs! MTCD367-8 : Two CDs + 48 page integral booklet in DVD case. 90 tracks, 156 minutes. Buy it from the MT Records website (see below), price just £16.00 All the very best .......... Rod rod@mustrad.org.uk Rod Stradling, Musical Traditions Records, 1 Castle Street, Stroud, Glos GL5 2HP; 01453 759475; mobile 0793 099 1641,
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The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts, by David Atkinson This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production, reception and editing. Among the matters addressed are topics central to the subject, including ballad origins, oral and printed transmission, sound and writing, agency and editing, and textual and melodic indeterminacy and instability. While drawing on the time-honoured materials of ballad studies, the book offers a theoretical framework for the discipline to complement the largely ethnographic approach that has dominated in recent decades. Primarily directed at readers interested in the study of ballads and folk songs, the book will also appeal to those with an interest in many adjacent fields, including folklore, oral literature, ethnomusicology and textual scholarship. The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts is available to read for free online at http://www.openbookpublishers.com/ product/250. Ebook (£5.95), paperback (£17.95) and hardback (£32.95) editions are also available via the same link. For more information, contact catherine@openbookpublishers.com. Catherine Heygate, Editor Open Book Publishers, www.openbookpublishers.com Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America: The Interface Between Print and Oral Traditions. Edited by David Atkinson & Steve Roud Ashgate Publishing is proud to present Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America: The Interface Between Print and Oral Traditions. In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ‘street literature’ - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers and reached the populace in printed form. Street Ballads engages with the longrunning debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature’s interaction with, and influence on, oral traditions. Street Ballads is available in Hardback, ePUB and ePDF formats for £70. Enter the code c14inu20 at www.ashgate.com for a 20% discount on the hardback until 31st October 2014. Hattie Wilson, Marketing Executive Ashgate Publishing, www.ashgate.com • Contributors Steve Roud, David Atkinson, Roy Palmer, Peter Wood, Chris Wright, Ffion Mair-Jones, John Moulden, Norm Cohen, Martin Graebe, David Atkinson, Tom Pettitt, Anna Kearney Guigné. - Ed.
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